Language and Gender Quiz

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What was Spender's Theory?
Language changes between boys and girls depending on age
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Name the theorist behind lexical priming
Hoey
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What are Patronyms
Male lines of inheritance
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What percentage of men interrupt more in conversations?
96%
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Who found men interrupt more in conversations?
Zimmerman and West
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Who talked about typical women talk e.g Periods, Bras, Shopping and Chocolate
Greer
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What was Amy Sheldon's findings in language?
Boys fought more and women complain more
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Cheshire's findings of men using more non-standard English supports which theorist?
Trudgill
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What is anthropomorphism?
Giving human male qualities to animals and objects
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What is the name of Lakoff's Theory
The defecit model
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What percentage of men interrupt more in conversations?

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Who found men interrupt more in conversations?

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